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“eFPGA technology has finally come of age.”

In the ongoing saga of FTC chicanery in the LabMD case… In case you are not up to speed, LabMD was investigated and charged by the FTC for lax security and exposure of patient data in 2009, and in subsequent hearings it became evident that the FTC was on a fishing expedition, paying infosec contractor Tiversa to “manufacture” evidence of malfeasance when there was no proof the data had been stolen or that any harm had subsequently come to patients of the small cancer detection lab.

This week, a federal judge denied the motion to dismiss the First Amendment case that LabMD brought against alleged complicit FTC employees. An excerpt from Law360, below: Read More

I recently wrote a blog article for Ingegy on the topic of IIoT security. Check it out!

I do believe there are more attackers with skills to pull off a medium difficulty attack or script up malware and attack tools. Also, there are also many more who wish to make money in the cybercrime arena and don’t have any real ability. However, the fact that attack tools and Rent-a-Bot on the Dark Web are showing up sooner after their initial use (more sophisticated code) and the price is cheaper, means that the pervasiveness of attacks is on a rapid rise. The barrier of entry for new or novice attackers is lowered. Add to all this the new trend of leveraging IoT and distributed attacks, and you have a scary Internet. It will get worse before it gets better. http://www.cxotoday.com/story/distributed-cybercrime-is-making-attackers-multi-millionaires

My full 2017 SC Awards introductory comments.

February 14, 2017 Read More